The actor, who performed Sixteen Proceeding on Seventeen in the 1965 cinema, said people should consider singing the musicals ballads like going to a therapist

Charmian Carr, who played Liesl von Trapp in The Racket of Music, has died at persons under the age of 73.

The actors spokesman said she died on Saturday in Los Angeles, of complications from a rare form of dementia.

Carr was good known for her capacity in the Rodgers and Hammersteins 1965 cinema, in which she acted the psalm Sixteen Starting On Seventeen. She was a college student when she auditioned for the film, which likewise starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

The actor amply espoused gatherings respect for the musical, routinely emerging at love happens commemorating the movie, including sing-a-long performances at the Hollywood Bowl.

I tell people that they should consider sing-a-long Sound Of Music like going to a therapist, she told Associated Press before a 2005 form. Its merely a kind of therapy. They can move around. They can dance and talk back to the screen. They can skip their appointment with the diminish that week.

Carr afterward wrote a duet of volumes about her knows, Forever Liesl and Letters To Liesl. She went on to star with Anthony Perkins in Evening Primrose, the Stephen Sondheim video musical.

Kym Karath, who played Gretl, a very young of the Von Trapp children, wrote on Twitter: It is with infinite sadness that I share the unfortunate information that the treasured& elegant Charmian Carr, beautiful Liesl, has passed away.

Ted Chapin, chairman of the Rodgers and Hammerstein organisation, said in a statement: Its ever pathetic when a member of their own families guides away and in the case of the family of the movie The Voice of Music, its specially sad when it is the first of the group to go.

Seth MacFarlane, the actor and director, wrote: So very saddened to hear of the death of Charmian Carr. She leaves behind one of the most memorable renditions in movie history.

Carr is survived by her four siblings, her two children and four grandchildren. She is also survived by the six other actors who became part of cinematic history when they were threw as the von Trapp children.